Book Bingo and Reading Challenge: #ReadQueerly2025

 Will be doing this again, getting as many books and filing as many squares as I can.

The goal, as always: read books focusing on LGBTQ+ characters and stories. New releases, upcoming releases, backlist titles, fiction, nonfiction—these are all okay as long as they feature queer main characters/cast and fit our prompts!

Of course, there’s a book bingo and review template waiting for you! For the prompts this year, there’s a bit more focus on new themes and topics (Robots and mechas, anyone?). Different prompts for authors of color are still here! (“SWANA” in the SWANA Author prompt refers to Southwest Asia and North Africa).

Here’s a full list of the #ReadQueerly2025 prompts!

1. Food: Mad Honey--Jodi Picoult
2. API Author: This One Summer--Jillian Tamaki
3. Poetry/Novel in verse: Tricks--Ellen Hopkins
4. Religious trauma
5. Music: Under the Same Stars--Libba Bray
6. Novella
7. Sports: Openly Straight--Bill Konigsberg
8. Graphic novel/manga: Banned Book Club--Kim Hyun Sook
9. Death/Necromancy/Reincarnation: Beautiful Creatures--Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
10. Latinx/Latine Author: Cantoras--Carolina de Robertis
11. Black Author: Nightcrawling--Leila Mottley
12. Plus size/fat rep
13. FREE: An ABC of Equality--Chana Ginelle Ewing
14. Time travel: Cloud Atlas--David Mitchell
15. Disability/Neurodiversity rep: Cursed--Karol Ruth Silverstein
16. New-to-You Author: Hello Beautiful--Ann Napolitano
17. Robots/Mechas/AI: Tweet Cute--Emma Lord
18. Anthology: Whiteout--Dhonielle Clayton
19. Roadtrip/Traveling: Are You Listening?--Tillie Walden
20. Indigenous Author
21. Winter holiday romance
22. Indie Author/Book: The Only Woman in the Room--Eileen Pollack
23. SWANA Author
24. Genre-bending Book: The Music of What Happens--Bill Konigsberg
25. Drag: Martin McLean, Middle School Queen--Alyssa Zaczek

Other Books Read:

1. The Guncle Abroad--Steven Rowley
2. Maya and the Rising Dark--Rena Barron
3. Ace of Shades--Amanda Foody
4. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books--Kirsten Miller
5. Fingersmith--Sarah Waters
6. The Beach House--Jane Green
7. Summer Island--Kristin Hannah
8. Before I Let Go--Marieke Nijkamp
9. Ninth House--Leigh Bardugo
10. Whiskers in the Dark--Rita Mae Brown
11. A Spark of Light--Jodi Picoult
12. Starry Eyes--Jenn Bennett
13. Acts of Violet--Margarita Montimore
14. The Short History of a Prince--Jane Hamilton
15. The Summer Pact--Emily Giffin
16. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea--Axie Oh
17. True Biz--Sara Novic
18. Three Junes--Julia Glass
19. More Happy Than Not--Adam Silvera
20. King of Fools--Amanda Foody
21. Queen of Volts--Amanda Foody
22. Fourth Wing--Rebecca Yarros
23. Summer in the City of Roses--Michelle Ruiz Keil
24. Girl, Serpent, Thorn--Melissa Bashardoust
25. The Bone Houses--Emily Lloyd-Jones